A claimant is a person requesting money from an insurer according to the terms of an insurance contract.
An amount representing actual or potential liabilities is allocated by an insurerto cover obligations to policyholders and third-party claimants.
The insurer has to prove why they disagree with what the claimant claims he or she is entitled to.
A claimant is a person requesting money from an insurer according to the terms of an insurancecontract.
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benefit claimant
Examples of 'claimant' in a sentence
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Ministers are to overhaul the way long-term claimants of sickness benefits are assessed.
The Sun (2016)
The claimants' subsequent applications for variation of leave were made after their original periods of leave had expired.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The claimant count for August also showed the number of people on unemployment benefit rising by 2,400.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
None of the six test case claimants was in court.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She sat in a section of the court reserved for civil claimants.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There will also be changes to when and how staff approach benefit claimants about work.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The costs judge dismissed their application and the claimants appealed.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
When benefits claimants play the system they face a jail sentence.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The number of new unemployment benefit claimants was also down.
The Sun (2013)
Judges often insist that the procedures are used before claimants bother the courts.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It was being used by the claimant at work with their knowledge and approval.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Want to object to benefit claimants having to undertake workplace training in return for payments?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Could this new claimant really be her brother?
Deborah Cadbury THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII (2002)
It is obviously right to put more pressure on benefit claimants to find work.
The Sun (2007)
It is paid to new claimants who are too ill to work due to a health condition or disability.
The Sun (2014)
And the claimant count will have been reduced by government moves to get unemployed people off benefit and into training.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This could result in claimants being unable to access their cash or running out of money before the end of the month.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
As a result, neither of the rival claimants had a decisive edge of power.
Christianity Today (2000)
The first is the claimant count, which shows the number of people claiming unemploymentbenefits.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Accordingly the claimant's application should be allowed.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Meanwhile, disability charities criticised a measure designed to help unemployed incapacity benefit claimants back to work as unhelpful.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
This kind of brutality brought no stability, as rival claimants to power chased each other out of office with some frequency.
Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
The Bill is designed to give publications more protection from libel actions including requiring claimants to show that they have suffered serious harm.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In the past six months, the capital and its surrounding region accounted for only a fifth of the unemployment increase on the claimant count.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A curb on foreign libel claimants using English courts in the hope of big payouts is also being considered.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
First, he held that the claimants' application involved not merely the addition of new claimants but the addition of new claims.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
An unemployed claimant can also earn up to 2 a day and not lose benefit provided that he or she remains available for full-time work.
Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990)
(noun)
the rival claimant to the French throne
Synonyms
applicant
The successful applicant will have excellent interpersonal skills.
pretender
the Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne
petitioner
supplicant (formal)
suppliant
Additional synonyms
in the sense of pretender
Definition
a person who makes a false or disputed claim to a throne or title
the Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne